thanks LF, All of these questions originated from looking in all the wrong places Config.h had some of what we needed but the parts where we could reverse the servos and actually where things made sense was under output. After finding that it wasn't too difficult. My freind who I left in charge of tweaking the code left a bunch of notes.

I did get it to transition to FF and back plenty of times its a little quirky with the tail motor slamming on and off but its pretty cool My next issue is finding out why its not giving me full throttle code is set to 2000 and it will only ascend if I release the elevator stick to neutral then it gives the two front motors more power I have no idea what to do with it now. The final one will be lighter so that should solve some of the problems but we'll see.

F&T, Congratulations! I'm glad you were able to figure it out. The Wii code is not real easy to use for the average guy, but if you have the patience it can do just about anything you ask it to.

Without seeing video or having my hands on the sticks it sound like the plane is tail heavy for both hover and forward flight. In hover your tail motor can't keep up and the gyros are limiting the front motors to try to maintain the correct attitude. If you can move your battery forward it should help this.

Tail motor slamming off = too much weight on the tail for forward flight and when the transition is complete the tail motor is working too hard so when it shuts down you get a bump and the tail feathers have to take over the load the tail fan was carrying...again move cg forward.

Tail motor slamming on...same thing, move cg forward. Also there should be a soft start built into the code for the restart of the tail motor...but if it is being asked to carry a lot of weight it will still spool up too quickly.

these are all just guesses , but I hope it helps. Can you supply more details of your build, props motors, battery AUW etc?. Can't wait to see video!!

oh, whoops. I kinda made it sound like it was too tail heavy, but most of the weight is on the two front motors (battery is all the way in the nose to get it to balance) the problem is I changed out the tail motor to another blue wonder motor (1700KV) and ran a 6x3 3 blader which produced wayy too much thrust and I had to pull back on the stick to get the plane to balance. I currently have it proped down to a 5x3 3 blader to reduce the amount of stick movement it takes to keep the thing from drifting forward. Hovering is a bit better but i'll experement some more with it tomorrow and seeing how well the plane can fly when tail heavy. The KF airfoil likes to be tail heavy right?

tail heavy as in for forward flight, right now too much load is placed on the two front motors and the tail motor is not loaded up enough to take some of the stress off of the front motors. It flys just fine in forward flight but the tricopter is not properly balanced.

yup, unfortunately 2/3 of them crashed.....first one experienced a code error then had a naccele come loose. The one I was flying had the tail motor fail to start (unknown issue as why the motor fails to start at certain positions) basically it did a wicked loop during transition and plowed nose first into the dirt.

yup, unfortunately 2/3 of them crashed.....first one experienced a code error then had a naccele come loose. The one I was flying had the tail motor fail to start (unknown issue as why the motor fails to start at certain positions) basically it did a wicked loop during transition and plowed nose first into the dirt.

"unknown issue as why the motor fails to start at certain positions" Certain positions of the craft in the air, or certain positions of the "mode" switch?

If the tail fan is wind milling backwards, the esc may not be able to re-start the motor...found this out in a tricopter while attempting a brief power off decent.

One solution would be to idle the tail motor instead of shutting it completely off during forward flight mode. Easy code change.

it was a sticking issue when the motor was in certain phases. I noticed it while on the ground that the rear motor wouldn't start till it was bumped. Unfortunately, my lack of better judgement let me fly it anyway I got away with it 10 times then it committed suicide.

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it was a sticking issue when the motor was in certain phases. I noticed it while on the ground that the rear motor wouldn't start till it was bumped. Unfortunately, my lack of better judgement let me fly it anyway I got away with it 10 times then it committed suicide.

When I've had a similar problem of motor not starting reliably, it is almost always a bad electrical connection...cold solder joint, broken joint only held together by heat shrink etc. and most often related to bullet connectors.